Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects

by William Collins

Genres: Poetry

52 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1746

About the author

There is more than one William Collins in the Goodreads catalog. This entry is for William [2^] Collins.

William Collins was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. His lyrical odes mark a turn away from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the Romantic era which would soon follow.